this study is inherently flawed.
first off, as Rochard discussed above, the study bundled together 8 different social programs, and complied statistics based on the incorrect assumption that a recipient of one program would be a recipient of all 8
additionally, the study assumes that no families with one working adult/parent use any of the 8 social programs included in the study. This is patently false, for example as
Rick Unger states in his article on the study,
in 2011, 86 percent of low-income children receiving health coverage through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) were in working families
(emphasis mine)
the Cato institute is a notoriously biased right wing think tank, I mean Charles Koch was the founder for fuck's sake. they've simply manipulated the data in a malicious attempt to get people all riled up. what's sad is that so many peeps just read headlines and don't bother to actually assess and critique the material that's presented to them.